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Why being the primary spender can feel like a burden and how to ease the guilt
There's been a lot of chatter lately around the mental load of being the "primary parent:" the one responsible for most of the day-to-day parenting tasks. Well, here's an interesting spin-off question from that conversation: what is the burden of being the primary spender in the family? Writer Monica Packer hit a nerve with this topic when she first posted about it. She explained that in most cases, the primary parent is also the primary spender and shared some of the surprising aspects to it.
